Dafoe, The Lone Entrepreneur is a very ambitious man.
He wants to make $1000 in the shortest amount of time!
He starts out with $0 but is currently receiving $5 per day and he can purchase the following shops at any given time:

Aha! I had my Excel sheet set up wrong, and wasn't considering the income from the new purchases until the day after instead of the same day. Now, I'm getting 980 as well. (Funny, I thought I'd already noticed and fixed that problem. It was late, though.)